Affordable Drawings
from the 16th through the 20th century
from the 16th through the 20th century
- Vasari, Seven Bishop Saints
- Passarotti, Male Nude Study
- Castello, A Decapitation
- Wildens, A Hilly Path
- Florentine School , Floral Ornament
- Procaccini, Head of a Soldier
- French School, Head of Hercules
- Vlieger , Fishermen
- Gargiulo , Elevation of Saints
- Roos, Cattle and Sheep
- Cabel, River Landscape
- d'Onofri , Trees in a Landscape
- German School, The Coronation of the Virgin
- Heemskerck, Peasants Drinking
- Piola, St. Raymond
- Moucheron , Classical Figures in a Grove of Trees
- Chaufourrier, Solfatara
- Lantara , Storm over a Village
- Volaire , Neapolitan Boatman
- Monogramist Vh , Woodland Grove
- Bolognese School, Seated Warrior
- Galliari , Stage Set: Courtyard of a Farm
- Duclaux , Plants Growing in a Field
- Cruikshank , Standing Male
- Altmann , Wine Taster
- Decamps, Trees at the Villa
- Nanteuil , Two Figures
- Bodmer, Partridges
- Harpignies , Trees
- Marsaud, Harlequin
- Dehodencq, Three Sketches
- Delauney, Fruit Tree with Birds
- Dansaert , Brawl in a Tavern
- Chapu, Studies for ’’Une Source’’
- Vannutelli, Two Women Seated in a Church
- Lepère, Studies of Ladies Shopping
- Béjot, Pont de l'Alma
- Henricus, Japonisme
- Vuillard, Mme. Vuillard, Sewing at Her Window
- Couturier, Carnival Scene at Night
- Brockhurst, Chinese Group
- Stankavich, On the Frontier
Studies for
Pencil and pen and brown ink on laid paper, 213 x 134 mm., with the estate stamp verso.
One study is vertical, the other horizontal; torn from a sketchbook, the sheet has small tears at three edges, one reinforced with tape verso. Chapu was an important French nineteenth-century sculptor, a student of Pradier and Duret, winner of the Prix de Rome, medalist many times over. His works are in various public buildings and churches in France. The statue for which this is one of the preliminary drawings is in the Musée Bonnat in Bayonne.